nuts

People here love foraging - driving through the lanes you will often see them, bags and baskets at the ready, searching for the bounty in the hedgerows and woods. Early in the year its the wild asparagus, later on the blackberries, sloes,  figs (if you're really lucky)  and mushrooms. At the moment its the sweet chestnuts and walnuts.

I have been  lucky this year and two people have given me walnuts from their trees and I have a big bowl of them. This year I am determined to use them while they are fresh as I kept last year's too long.

Should be a walnut tart or two there I think.











I don't think I have ever eaten really fresh walnuts straight from the tree before. I added them to a ham and fig salad I made for lunch today and they were amazing.


There was a small sapling growing in our garden when we moved here which turned out to be a walnut tree - its growing fast - I wonder if we will ever get crop of our own walnuts. I do hope so.